Hints and tips:
...Apple, whose management isn’t protected by supervoting shares, came under intense pressure around a decade ago to stop hoarding cash....
...And don’t miss the cyber security scare that is threatening a JPMorgan investment in the payments space. Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...For example, unscrupulous China-based insiders who steal assets are largely legally unreachable from America. But I’m afraid China won’t blink....
...A few weeks back DD asked whether T-Mobile had done enough to save its Sprint deal. It turns out several US states don’t think so....
...“BAM doesn’t do anything,” Mr Flatt confirms. “BAM never puts up any money, for anything....
...And that doesn’t just refer to the tax-cutting, deregulating, market-boosting Make America Great Again agenda from the Trump White House. There is another Maga now causing stock market palpitations....
...You can’t, you know, in retrospect try to second guess that.”...
...“If consumers don’t know how data will be used once it has been collected, and don’t realise the cost implications for their data plans, then there is a question to be answered about whether any permission...
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...“It is clear technology can be a positive force but it’s equally clear we can’t just be wide-eyed,” Mr Pichai said. “We feel a deep sense of responsibility about how to get this right.”...
...“People don’t go on Facebook like it’s YouTube, so it would be silly for us to say: now you can watch all our videos there,” says a senior label executive. “They have to crawl before they walk.”...
...There are immediate winners (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile) as well as losers (such as Netflix, which streams the most bandwidth intensive internet traffic, which will very likely go up in cost, as well...
...SFR added a net 16,000 mobile subscribers in the quarter. In Portugal, adjusted earnings were down 1.3 per cent to €265m on a 3.1 per cent drop in revenue to €566m....
...Chinese companies can help make technology more affordable in America, as it slips down the league of internet speeds and affordability....
...The tech giants soaked up 72 cents of every new dollar spent on digital ads in the US last year, according to eMarketer....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...So they don’t want put their eggs in the Venezuelan basket.”...
...“This gives us a huge content engine, and it allows us to pivot that content on to any platform, whether it be skinny bundles, direct-to-consumer or the 7bn screens out there in mobile.”...
...of new mobile telephony services....
...She says: “‘A lot of people said to me that you can get smart and trained people, but they won’t be nice or ethical. We need people that meet all of these criteria.”...
...They were used in the 1990s by AT&T and Sprint to try to attract a higher valuation for their fast-growing mobile businesses, and by companies including Walt Disney to tap into the dotcom bubble for their...
...T-Mobile US is to give about 10m customers shares in the company, in the fast-growing mobile carrier’s latest unconventional move to grab market share from its larger rivals....
...Follow us all on Twitter: @neiLmunshi, @barneyjopson, @Courtney_FT and @Dimi Click here for full FT coverage of the 2016 race. On the trail Why don’t Americans trust Clinton?...
...AT&T dropped its $39bn bid for T-Mobile US in 2011 after the DoJ sued to block the deal, while Nasdaq’s $11bn attempt to take over the New York Stock Exchange was thwarted by antitrust concerns....
...The most well-known legal protection — “legal professional privilege” or (as it is called in the US and elsewhere) “client-attorney privilege” — is exactly that: a privilege....
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